2001 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I

The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2001.

In the Europe/Africa Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group qualifying round, along with losing teams from the World Group first round. Teams who lost in the first round competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2002.[1]

Participating nations

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Draw

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Second Round Play-offsFirst Round Play-offsFirst RoundSecond Round
  Great Britain
Solihull, England (indoor carpet)
bye
bye  Great Britain5
Maia, Portugal (clay)
  Ukraine  Portugal0
  Ukraine2
Wels, Austria (indoor hard)
  Portugal3
  Ukraine1
  Austria4
  Austria
Pula, Croatia (indoor carpet)
bye
  Austria  Austria1
bye  Croatia4
bye
  Croatia
  Belarus
Minsk, Belarus (indoor carpet)
bye
bye  Belarus3
  Zimbabwe  Zimbabwe2
bye
Harare, Zimbabwe (indoor hard)
  Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe3
Helsinki, Finland (indoor carpet)
  Slovenia2
  Slovenia2
Helsinki, Finland (indoor carpet)
  Finland3
  Slovenia  Finland2
bye  Italy3
bye
  Italy

First round

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Portugal vs. Ukraine

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Portugal
3
Maia Tennis Complex, Maia, Portugal[2]
9–11 February 2001
Clay
 
Ukraine
2
1 2 3 4 5
1  
 
Emanuel Couto
Andriy Medvedev
7
5
1
6
3
6
2
6
   
2  
 
Bernardo Mota
Andrei Dernovskiy
3
6
6
4
6
3
3
6
6
1
 
3  
 
Emanuel Couto / Nuno Marques
Andrei Dernovskiy / Andriy Medvedev
6
4
4
6
7
5
6
4
   
4  
 
Bernardo Mota
Andriy Medvedev
0
6
1
6
2
6
     
5  
 
Emanuel Couto
Andrei Dernovskiy
6
3
6
4
79
67
     

Finland vs. Slovenia

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Finland
3
Tali Tennis Centre, Helsinki, Finland[3]
9–11 February 2001
Carpet (indoors)
 
Slovenia
2
1 2 3 4 5
1  
 
Tuomas Ketola
Andrej Kračman
6
3
6
3
6
4
     
2  
 
Jarkko Nieminen
Marko Tkalec
6
4
6
2
6
2
     
3  
 
Ville Liukko / Jarkko Nieminen
Andrej Kračman / Borut Urh
4
6
77
62
77
64
63
77
4
6
 
4  
 
Tuomas Ketola
Marko Tkalec
2
6
61
77
3
2
    retired
 
5  
 
Jarkko Nieminen
Andrej Kračman
6
3
6
1
7
5
     

Second round

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Great Britain vs. Portugal

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Great Britain
5
National Exhibition Centre, Solihull, England[4]
6–8 April 2001
Carpet (indoors)
 
Portugal
0
1 2 3 4 5
1  
 
Tim Henman
Tiago Vinhas Sousa
6
2
6
1
6
1
     
2  
 
Greg Rusedski
Emanuel Couto
6
3
63
77
6
1
6
2
   
3  
 
Tim Henman / Greg Rusedski
Emanuel Couto / António van Grichen
6
1
77
65
710
68
     
4  
 
Martin Lee
António van Grichen
6
2
6
0
       
5  
 
Lee Childs
Tiago Vinhas Sousa
6
1
6
4
       

Croatia vs. Austria

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Croatia
4
Dom Mladosti Hall, Pula, Croatia[5]
6–8 April 2001
Carpet (indoors)
 
Austria
1
1 2 3 4 5
1  
 
Goran Ivanišević
Stefan Koubek
6
4
6
3
77
63
     
2  
 
Ivan Ljubičić
Julian Knowle
4
6
65
77
63
77
     
3  
 
Goran Ivanišević / Ivan Ljubičić
Julian Knowle / Jürgen Melzer
6
4
79
67
4
6
6
3
   
4  
 
Ivan Ljubičić
Stefan Koubek
5
7
6
3
77
63
6
3
   
5  
 
Mario Ančić
Clemens Trimmel
4
6
6
3
77
64
     

Belarus vs. Zimbabwe

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Belarus
3
Olympic Tennis Centre, Minsk, Belarus[6]
6–8 April 2001
Carpet (indoors)
 
Zimbabwe
2
1 2 3 4 5
1  
 
Vladimir Voltchkov
Wayne Black
2
3
        retired
 
2  
 
Max Mirnyi
Byron Black
6
3
7
5
6
0
     
3  
 
Max Mirnyi / Alexander Shvets
Wayne Black / Kevin Ullyett
78
66
5
7
3
6
65
77
   
4  
 
Alexander Shvets
Byron Black
6
4
77
65
6
1
     
5  
 
Max Mirnyi
Kevin Ullyett
6
3
77
64
7
5
     

Finland vs. Italy

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Finland
2
Tali Tennis Centre, Helsinki, Finland[7]
6–8 April 2001
Carpet (indoors)
 
Italy
3
1 2 3 4 5
1  
 
Ville Liukko
Federico Luzzi
4
6
67
79
6
4
6
3
12
14
 
2  
 
Jarkko Nieminen
Mosé Navarra
6
3
61
77
2
6
4
6
   
3  
 
Tuomas Ketola / Jarkko Nieminen
Mosé Navarra / Vincenzo Santopadre
5
7
5
7
4
6
     
4  
 
Jarkko Nieminen
Filippo Volandri
6
3
7
5
       
5  
 
Tapio Nurminen
Vincenzo Santopadre
6
3
6
4
       

Second round relegation play-offs

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Austria vs. Ukraine

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Austria
4
Bosch-Halle, Wels, Austria[8]
21–23 September 2001
Hard (indoors)
 
Ukraine
1
1 2 3 4 5
1  
 
Stefan Koubek
Andrei Dernovskiy
6
0
6
3
3
6
6
1
   
2  
 
Markus Hipfl
Orest Tereshchuk
6
3
6
1
6
1
     
3  
 
Julian Knowle / Jürgen Melzer
Andrei Dernovskiy / Orest Tereshchuk
66
78
6
2
3
6
6
1
3
6
 
4  
 
Markus Hipfl
Andriy Medvedev
6
4
4
6
6
0
6
4
   
5  
 
Stefan Koubek
Taras Demyanenko
6
0
6
3
       

Zimbabwe vs. Slovenia

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Zimbabwe
3
City Sports Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe[9]
21–23 September 2001
Hard (indoors)
 
Slovenia
2
1 2 3 4 5
1  
 
Kevin Ullyett
Marko Tkalec
7
5
7
5
6
4
     
2  
 
Wayne Black
Iztok Božič
77
64
4
6
6
3
3
6
4
6
 
3  
 
Wayne Black / Kevin Ullyett
Boštjan Ošabnik / Matija Zgaga
6
3
6
3
6
3
     
4  
 
Wayne Black
Marko Tkalec
6
4
6
4
2
6
6
4
   
5  
 
Genius Chidzikwe
Iztok Božič
6
3
1
6
4
6
     

References

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  1. ^ "2001 Europe/Africa Group I". DavisCup.com. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Portugal v Ukraine". daviscup.com.
  3. ^ "Finland v Slovenia". daviscup.com.
  4. ^ "Great Britain v Portugal". daviscup.com.
  5. ^ "Croatia v Austria". daviscup.com.
  6. ^ "Belarus v Zimbabwe". daviscup.com.
  7. ^ "Finland v Italy". daviscup.com.
  8. ^ "Austria v Ukraine". daviscup.com.
  9. ^ "Zimbabwe v Slovenia". daviscup.com.
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